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Next Generation Communications Week in Review

As you will see below, this week in the Next Generation Communications Community contains a cornucopia of insights from our guest bloggers to go with some interesting industry news and features.

However, before getting into all of that I wanted to introduce you, and hopefully you have noticed that we have redesigned the look and feel of the community home page. It was done with you in mind. The new home page not only continues to have links to all of the information resources that make this community so popular, but we think the fresh look makes it all the more easier for you to find everything available on the site. By all means let us know what you think and enjoy.

News

As mentioned, the news was not only interesting, but illustrates as always the diversity and international reach of the community. News of note includes the opening by community host, Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert), of a new research lab in Cambridge, UK, which is dedicated to looking at how networks should adapt to changing user behavior regarding real-time video delivery. The Cambridge office will be the second “antenna office” for Bell Labs (News - Alert), following one in Israel back in May.

Other news involved:

A large number of partners in Senegal are leading the way in an mDiabetes campaign, part of the larger mHealth movement around the globe dubbed "Be Healthy, Be Mobile" that uses mobile technology as a means of overcoming health challenges.

InterCloud reported that investments in next generation network solutions are being driven increasingly by the cloud, mobility and the use of video.

There are features this week and they both come in the form of studies. In the first one, Alcatel-Lucent is out with a new study that quantifies savings of moving DNS to the cloud via network functions virtualization (NFV). While in the second there is an explanation of the six challenges enterprises need to overcome in 2014.

Blogs

As noted at the top we had a flood of guest blogs, each of which I highly recommend.

Take advantage this weekend to put our new design to good use by reviewing the community’s rich assortment of constantly updated news, whitepapers, videos, podcasts and case studies. In fact, for those of you with an interest in optical networking if you have not had a chance the recently added white paper, The Urgent Need for Agility in Optical Networks, is worth a read.

In addition, there are also links to several eZines with two Alcatel-Lucent TechZine articles on things wireless worth spending some time with: